The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a missile strike on SIGINT assets on Zmeiny Island in the Black Sea.

Long-range strategic bombers Tu-22M3 of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out missile A strike on Zmeiny Island in the Black Sea. Two Kh-32 supersonic missiles were used in the attack.

Reports about this appeared in the media.

According to some reports, the surrounding areas of the island were also attacked.

Actually, the Russian strategic aviation Periodically operates over the Black Sea. It carries out both training and combat sorties. During these missions, the Tu-22M3s are usually escorted by fighter aircraft.

As for Zmeiny Island, despite its apparent unattractiveness, it is an important strategic target. It has a unique location, being close to both Romania and the Crimean coast. Therefore, control of the island allows for the control of shipping routes, including arms shipments to the Ukrainian Armed Forces via sea from Western countries.

This is precisely why the enemy is trying to establish a foothold here—by establishing electronic reconnaissance assets, and Russian forces are delivering quite effective strikes as soon as the equipment is repaired or replaced after previous strikes. For example, last June, our aircraft, using Kh-22 missiles, destroyed enemy electronic warfare assets at Zmeinoye, as well as the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) militants who were installing and configuring them there.

Furthermore, Russian forces also struck the nearby Tavrida drilling rig, where the enemy had established a command and refueling station for unmanned boats.

Comments

[air wolf]

Well, finally, the normal bombers have started flying, it's time to crush the Banderite strongholds in Donbass.

[Xenon]

The horses quickly settled in on our island, and even brought reconnaissance electronics there.

[Vinnibuh]

I wonder, a little while ago they told us this island wasn't useful to anyone or anything? It's shot right through, and so on and so forth. Were they lying? Is it really needed again?

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: Vinnibuh

I wonder, a little while ago they told us this island wasn't useful to anyone or anything? It's shot right through, and so on and so forth. Were they lying? Is it really needed again?

As you can see, it's shot right through. Both from the Jewish-Banderite shore and from Russian Crimea. Would you like to live there?

[Panin (midshipman)]

Quote: 30 vis

Quote: Vinnibuh

I wonder, a little while ago they told us this island wasn't useful to anyone or anything? It's shot right through, and so on and so forth. Were they lying? Is it really needed again?

As you can see, it's shot right through. Both from the Jewish-Banderite shore and from Russian Crimea. Would you like to live there?

From Crimea, we can only use missiles, but from that side, we can use cannon artillery. So there's no point in us keeping troops there.

[Sergey39]

Ours got burned once, now they take it out periodically, everyone on the island.
And once upon a time there was an ordinary border outpost.

[stankow]

It's 80 km to the coast from there. You can't really use cannon artillery there.

[kaban7]

The point was that there was no point in us capturing it because it was under fire from all sides. And in its current status, it's perfectly fine—just the sklykly are all over the place, and good TU-22s are flying in and doing some landscaping.

[Panadol]

We need him, we need him. But he's from close to Odessa, where many of our people were killed. We had to leave him.
But I hope not for long.

[sir Garry]

She's always been there! It's not for nothing that we tried to capture this island 5-7 times.

[Al manah]

It's a good thing no one reported to Putin that Zmeiny was ours, otherwise it would have been like Pokrovsk. Anyone who thinks this is NOT good can downvote.

[tlauicol]

If only we had our own Magura drone carrier, Ukrainians They wouldn't have landed on this island at all. And the boats and repeaters would have been carried out by regular FPVs.

[vitaliy20091959]

How did they allow the transfer of RER funds to the snake? That the western Black Sea region is not controlled by the Russian Armed Forces? Are we at war or what?

[next322]

How can we control it? Even if backdoors reach from Odessa to Novorossiysk.

[O. Bender]

We waited until they brought it in and then launched. The island is small, it doesn't float anywhere, you can just use rackets from the ground. But I guess even flyers need to practice, so good luck.

[Alexey Lantukh]

Perhaps pilots need to train too

Probably necessary. But if they'd dropped a ground-based tactical charge, the Ukrainians wouldn't have been able to get there anytime soon. The target was perfect. There was no population. They would have demonstrated that the use of nuclear weapons was entirely possible. Yes, if there had been a cloud heading for Budapest with a southeasterly wind.

[stankow]

Bucharest
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[Alexey Lantukh]

Bucharest

Yes indeed! Typos happen.

[stankow]

Of course they happen, so we'll clarify that it's a typo, not a mistake!

[Kotofeich]

The Kh-32 isn't a cheap missile. Why didn't they use Geranka missiles? What air defense system is there?

[solar]

There's solid granite rock with a thin layer of soil there. If you manage to dig deep enough, you'll only damage the Geranium's antennae.

[Mikhail Nasharashev]

They start up periodically, then when our guys see that they've settled in, they take everything out with missiles and so on in a circle

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: vitaliy20091959

How did they allow the transfer of RER funds to the snake? That the western Black Sea region is not controlled by the Russian Armed Forces? Are we at war or what?

From the Zhidobander coast to Zmeiny Island it is 34 km. From Crimea it is two hundred. Vershtein?, chi nicht vershtein?

[UVB]

The strategists are the Tu-160, Tu-95, and the Tu-22M3 is simply long-range

[Coconut Tima]

What is the Tu-22M3M with a refueling boom considered?

[ALCA056000]

What about the Su-34 with a boom, what is it considered?

[commbatant]

Quote: coconut tim

What is the Tu-22M3M with a refueling boom considered?

Far away. Who deprived him of this rod?

In fact, the Russian Air Force (VVS) has only two types of strategic missile-carrying bombers: the Tu-160M/M2 and the Tu-95MS/MSM. The Russian Air Force also operates the Tu-22M3/MZM long-range bomber. However, given the range of modern weapons these aircraft can potentially carry, as well as the presence of an in-flight refueling system (or the possibility of being equipped with one), we will consider the Tu-22M3/MZM in the same group as strategic bombers. Incidentally, the removal of the in-flight refueling system was once a US requirement for the exemption of Tu-22M3 bombers from the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

https://topwar.ru/241513-rossijskie-strategi-tu-160-tu-95-i-tu-22m3-na-rubezhe-2035-2045-godov.html?ysclid=mmjn7yfd7f155429616
It's a shame not to read periodicals.

[sir Garry]

Quote: Alexey Lantukh

Perhaps pilots need to train too

Probably necessary. But if they'd dropped a ground-based tactical charge, the Ukrainians wouldn't have been able to get there anytime soon. The target was perfect. There was no population. They would have demonstrated that the use of nuclear weapons was entirely possible. Yes, if there had been a cloud heading for Budapest with a southeasterly wind.

Don't we need it? After the TNW - definitely!

[snow mountain]

Quote: Vinnibuh

We were told that this island was not connected to anyone or anywhere?

If we controlled it, it would be talked about as an important strategic place.

[ALCA056000]

What kind of nonsense is this - "...Long-range strategic bombers..."? So, long-range or strategic? What kind of victims of the Unified State Exam are writing articles about here?

[Seal]

What do you think of the "island's surroundings"?

According to some reports, they were also attacked surroundings of the island.

[ALCA056000]

They're pathetic, what can you expect from them? They're just mindless graphomaniacs.

[Kuzmitsky]

Russian Strategic Aviation (Russian Long-Range Aviation) is a component of the Russian Air Force, forming part of the strategic offensive forces. It is part of the nuclear triad and is part of the Aerospace Forces (VKS). It is designed to strike the most important (strategic) targets behind enemy lines and beyond the reach of enemy air defenses, including with the use of nuclear weapons, and to conduct operational and strategic aerial reconnaissance. The core of strategic aviation is heavy bombers capable of carrying long-range cruise missiles and conventional and nuclear bombs.
Russia's strategic aviation has Tu-160 and Tu-95MS missile carriers, Tu-22M3 bombers, Il-78 tanker aircraft, and various modifications of training and transport aircraft.

[agond]

Quote: Kuzmitsky

Strategic aviation of Russia
The backbone of strategic aviation is heavy bombers capable of carrying long-range cruise missiles.

If a cruise missile is long-range, why launch it from an aircraft flying over its own territory?
By the way, from Crimea to Zmeiny Island is less than 300 km, and the range of the K-32 is about 1000 km, the range of the Tu-22 is more than 2000 km.

[ALCA056000]

So what's the point of this digression? If, according to the writer, there are "long-range strategic bombers," then logically there should also be "short-range strategic bombers"? Or something like that, or one thing or the other?

[commbatant]

Distant strategic Tu-22M3 bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces

When did it become strategic?
One might as well write an article about a UAV repeater antenna in some village called Gundosovo, located in the Ukraine Nature Reserve.

[agond]

Quote: Seal

What do you think of the "island's surroundings"?

Father Onufriy was discovered while exploring the area around Lake Onega.

[egsp]

"The island's surroundings were also attacked." What does this mean? Author, was the water attacked?
Write more clearly, no need for a stupid translation from a foreign language.

[musorg]

So let's slowly start fighting, and not make war into surgery!

[2al]

Hitting antennas with expensive anti-ship missiles? It's much cheaper to use a BEC with FPV for such purposes.